Government & Politics

A multigenerational farm on Brace Road in the Ontario County town of Canandaigua is more economically secure now that the Brocklebank family has agreed to provide a conservation easement to the state. The easement provides Scott and Travis Brocklebank, the ...

A $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Rochester Institute of Technology to help other colleges compete for federal funding aimed at expanding STEM opportunities for bright, low-income students. “It’s critical to our national interests that we do ...

Rochester’s Paradigm Environmental Services Inc. is one of 19 finalists in New York state’s 76West Clean Energy competition. The competition offers $2.5 million in prizes to companies that will build or expand clean energy business in New York’s Southern Tier, ...

NextCorps’ Growth Services, which serves as the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NY MEP) network center in the Finger Lakes, generated $77.2 million in financial impacts and helped create or retain 602 jobs in 2018. The numbers were released last week ...

Sen. Charles Schumer, who has taken on limitations hindering canned cider in the past, is now trying to remove barriers affecting wine in cans. While visiting Fox Run Vineyards in Benton, Yates County, Wednesday morning, Schumer said federal regulations are ...

Residents of Highland Parkway say they will fight to derail the most recent development plans for the now-vacant Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, even though developer Angelo Ingrassia has again scaled back his project. Ingrassia has proposed construction of two ...

The founder and former president of a city charter school is suing Mayor Lovely Warren and the city of Rochester, claiming he faced ridicule and hatred after they capitalized on the “ugliness of race-baiting” when providing an avenue for a ...

The neighborhood spoke and developer Angelo Ingrassia listened. Again. Ingrassia today announced his plans to again scale back the redevelopment of the former Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School property, including a reduced housing footprint and the elimination of an underground ...

Canned wine is increasingly popular these days, but there’s a mismatch between the size of cans wineries are using and the size the consumers want. That conclusion comes from a study conducted by WICResearch.com, an entity formed by a couple ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center and the Monroe County Office of the Medical Examiner are partnering to offer a one-year fellowship in forensic pathology. The organizations are recruiting now for the position that will probably start next summer. “I’m ...

New York’s U.S. senators announced today that the state college system will be receiving nearly $8 million in federal funds to boost job training in advanced manufacturing, particularly for under-served and unemployed populations. The grant goes to the Research Foundation ...

Regional Transit Service (RTS) will cut fares for seniors, people with disabilities and military veterans, if the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transit Authority approves a new rate structure at Thursday’s meeting. The final recommendation for the Reimagine RTS system redesign includes a ...

Initial work is underway on the Route 63 bridge replacement in Geneseo. The $8.7 million project calls for replacement of the nearly 70-year-old two-lane truss bridge that carries Route 63 traffic over the Genesee River. The new bridge, which will ...

Now that much of the old Inner Loop East has been transformed, the city of Rochester has issued a request for proposals for an Inner Loop North transformation planning study. City leaders want to evaluate alternatives and advance recommendations for ...

New York State Electric & Gas Corp. this week received a penalty of $3.5 million from the state for reliability issues related to outages in 2018. The New York State Public Service Commission announced it was deducting a total of ...